July 2008

July 24, 2008

S IS FOR SEXY is a collection of short gay films (most subtitled) that have been on the festival circuit and are compiled here in a nice 100 minute show. The thing about short subjects is that they are easily digestible and it takes a special skill as a filmmaker to present a situation and move it along all within a few minutes.

The collection works for a number of reasons.. first the stories are varied – there are comedies and dramas and one that tells last years Chuck and Larry story the right way (two straight Iranian guys will be killed if they return to Iran and so the stakes for them to lie are understandable). Second the guys are hot. I hate to sound superficial but let’s be honest, in gay films the guys should be sexy (especially in a collection with Sexy in the title). Overall the acting is good, the direction evenly paced and the stories interesting. There’s one short (Scarred) that’s extremely disturbing but that filmmaker Damien Rea can muster fear and displacement in ten minute is a minor miracle. The most hilarious, 41 Seconds, is basically a four panel newspaper cartoon stretched into four minutes but it’s effective in making it’s point. No less than three of the shorts make use of and integrate the online experience as a facet of modern gay dating but Mr Right 22 does it best with a blind date that becomes humorously traumatic but ultimately hopeful.

This is definitely a feel good collection of shorts by some very talented people and should you decide that you can’t wait for a Bingo night to maybe win one of our copies, you can go to http://www.wolfevideo.com/default.asp?R=777 to get your mitts on it right away (the link takes you to Wolfe Video’s main page).

July 22, 2008

I took time out to watch TitanMen’s recent release CHAINSAW which gave me a stir… specifically while watching the Sebastian Rivers scene over and over again. He’s quite the actor portraying a nervous door to door salesman pedaling some self help b.s. dvd to backwoods men.

I’ve seen Rivers act before and he’s quite commanding and natural on screen… and not so bad either when he’s naked. Anyway, it’s a Joe Gage movie so you know there’s going to be as much care put into the set up for the sex as there’s going to be put into shooting the sex itself. The dramatic tension between characters in a Gage flick is always delicious and more believable than those from most other companies. Me, I like my porn to have context and there are layers of it in this flick.

Starring Titan exclusive Dean Flynn (who’ll be joining us at Bingo on August 6th) as well as exclusives Dillon Buck and Tony Buff (yum!) along with Braxton Bond, Riley Burke, Ludovic Canot, Brandon Cole, Ken Mack, CJ Madison, Bigg Pete, and Allen Silver. You can check it out for yourself by going to www.titanmen.com

July 11, 2008

Raging Stallion is storming the Blu Ray market with their two latest releases, THE FOURTH FLOOR and the upcoming Steve Cruz starrer, HOTTER THAN HELL.

I took a gander at the FOURTH FLOOR the other night just before bed and have to say there’s some seriously good sex happening in this flick and the sight of Raging Stallion exclusive Logan McCree standing there in jeans.. all bearded, sweaty, greasy and tattooed exuding a silent and powerful sexuality .. well, it was more than I could contain. Woof. The flick features RSS Exclusives Roman Ragazzi, , Antonio "11 inch" Biaggi, Steve Cruz, and Jake Deckard along with Jack Ryan, Scott Tanner, Billy Berlin and Aaron Action!

OK so I’m all for righteous anger against people who would hurt us for being of the LGBT persuasion but lately it seems as though here in New York we’re being a little over zealous.

The latest example of this was the big Rite Aid scare this past week.

Sunday morning my boyfriend and I took our usual Sunday morning walk around the neighborhood and noticed something curious posted outside the door of the local Rite Aid: “The store does not believe in same sex marriages. Any same sex activity which includes kissing, hugging, touching or anything that would make our customers feel uncomfortable is prohibited in the store.” And was signed by Rite Aid management.

It seemed odd to us because we’ve been in there dozens of times and while we’re not rolling around on the floor in each others’ pants (although that is an intriguing image) we’re clearly a couple and haven’t once had even a modicum of trouble. They’re on the border between Chelsea and the West Village, why WOULD they have a problem with gay men and women?

Anyway, there were a couple employees there waiting for the store to open and we turned to them with a “what’s this?” look on our faces and they just shrugged not knowing what to make of it. The boyfriend and I shrugged too figuring that it was a homemade sign put up by a disgruntled customer because really, how dumb does one have to be to believe that a major multinational corporation would put that sign up on the outside of their store early on a Sunday morning?

Naturally bloggers have been screaming “homophobia!” all week long seeing more red than reason. But come on people, THINK! If you don’t want to be called a kneejerk reactionary, don’t act like one!

I say, save the anger for the real threats. For example, the lawmakers in my home state of Wisconsin will throw same sex couples in jail for a few months and fine them a few thousand dollars if they jet off to get married in California and then return. Yes they are enforcing this. See www.fairwisconsin.com for details.

July 01, 2008

It should really go without saying that Titan Men's FOLSOM PRISON www.titanmen.com is full of hot masculine built buff butch men who know how to give and take in equal measure and with great gusto.

The cast is great and includes Ford as well as Diesel Washington www.dieselwashington.blogspot.com who shines in the first scene as an unruly (that’s an understatement!) prisoner. Then there’s Titan exclusive Tony Buff who made me lose my morning juice (and I’m not talking the orange kind although it was fresh squeezed) as a tough, hyper masculine guard with a sexy eagle tat on his right arm. YUM! Plus porn star Trey Casteel who just can’t turn in a bad performance. The cast also features a load of other hot men including exclusives Alex Baresi, Damien Crosse, Chad Manning and Rick Van Sant with Vinnie D’Angelo, Derek DaSilva, Bjoern Giger, Markus Ram, Dak Ramsey and Dominik Sol.

I saw Brian Mills’ director cut and there’s all sorts of stuff going on that my blog carrier won't let me talk about so you’ll just have to check out the Titan site for yourself and of course buy it not only because it’s one fine flick but also because part of the proceeds from the film go to benefit the Folsom Street Fair charities www.folsomstreetfair.org (and you can see Titan’s Dean Flynn in one of their online ads) which celebrates it’s 25th year in 2008!